Master Xuanming's hair was half-white, but his eyes were exceptionally spirited and sharp. With just a glance, one could feel as if he was seen through in an instant.
Master Xuanming looked at the people in front of him one by one, nodded to Yi Lao's grandchildren, passed by Gu's father, and finally stopped at Wen He. There seemed to be a bit of inquiry in his eyes, but it was not annoying. Almost subconsciously, Wen He took a step forward and said politely and respectfully, "Hello, Master Xuanming, I am the junior Wen He."
"I've heard your name, Wen girl. Lately, whenever I've been drinking at Zhang Daxian's place, I've been hearing your name. I also heard that the interesting fruit at Zhang Daxian's place was given by you, right?"
Wen He was caught off guard by these words and was stunned. When she looked up, she saw Master Xuan Ming's slightly interested eyes, which made her slightly nervous heart relax at once. She immediately smiled and said, "If Master Xuan Ming is interested, I can also send you some fruit. I just don't know your address."
"Haha, no problem, no problem. I've just been envious of those fruits lately. But right now, let's go check on Yi Lao first. My apprentice is out on a mission and isn't here. Wen girl, how about coming to be my assistant?"
Of course there was no problem with this. Wen He had originally planned to do so. He nodded and naturally followed Master Xuanming in.
It has to be said that this contact in such a short time made the Yi family father and son a little surprised. As mentioned before, they asked the Gu family to call Wen He because Mr. Yi had mentioned the name "Wen He" before he fainted. Just in case, the Yi family father and son decided to call Wen He as well.
But the current situation seemed a little different from what they had initially envisioned. They hadn't expected Master Xuanming to know Wen He. Furthermore, the look and conversation he'd just exchanged seemed to indicate he was treating Wen He as a close friend. Could it be that Wen He was also a metaphysical practitioner? The Yi family's father and son exchanged a thoughtful glance, their attitudes toward Gu Jianming, the father, becoming slightly more favorable.
To be honest, although Mr. Gu has a good relationship with the elders of their family, there is really no need for any close friendship in the current Gu family. If it weren't for some friendship, it is estimated that by the current generation, there would be no special contact.
The reason is very simple, because it has no value. Gu's father's business ability may not be bad, but there are many people who are better than Gu's father. There is no need to support a rotten tree that can never be lifted up.
But if the Gu family had a daughter who had some connection with the world of metaphysics, then it would be completely different.
After all, masters of metaphysics cannot be invited just by having money. Take Master Xuanming at this moment, for example. The Yi family father and son also spent a lot of effort to get Master Xuanming to come. And just now, the way Master Xuanming interacted with that girl, if it weren't for something important, he would have invited the girl to his side.
The closeness or distance is very obvious.
The next moment, the Yi family father and son smiled and said to Gu Jianming, "Mr. Gu, after everything is settled, why not bring your eldest daughter to the Yi residence for a gathering? Our two families have been friends for such a long time, but we haven't had a good gathering recently."
These words made Gu Jianming feel both panicked and extremely excited.
What does this sentence mean? As a businessman, he knows it best. The Yi family means that they are willing to reconcile with their Gu family. It also means that if nothing unexpected happens, the Gu family can still rely on the Yi family as a backer.
At this moment, when Gu Jianming quickly responded yes, in addition to his excitement, he also had an indescribable feeling. It was not because of anything else, but simply because he suddenly discovered that his eldest daughter, Wen He, did not seem to be what he had imagined.
When did she learn about metaphysics, and how could she have a relationship with a difficult-to-approach figure like Master Xuanming? Gu Jianming knew nothing about this. This was a Wen He who was completely unfamiliar to him.
Moreover, Wen He's attitude towards Master Xuanming and others is completely different from his attitude towards him. Obviously, their relationship should be the closest.
Of course, at this moment, no one would pay attention to how complicated Gu Jianming's mood was. Yi Lao's situation was much more important.
But as soon as he entered Mr. Yi's room and saw Mr. Yi, whose face was as pale as paper, Master Xuanming's brows could not help but tighten, and his expression suddenly became extremely ugly, and Wen He's expression was not much better. Mr. Yi's situation was clearly, it was...
"The soul leaves the body..."
"That's right, the soul has left the body. And judging from the complexion, it's probably been more than seven days. If it exceeds seven days, it's probably already..."
Seeing Wen He and Master Xuanming's expressions suddenly change, the Yi family's father and son couldn't help but feel nervous and asked what was going on. In fact, this matter was very easy to explain. The soul leaving the body is actually very common. When the human body is frightened, a slight soul leaving the body phenomenon will occur.
To give a simple example, for example, you have a dream while sleeping soundly. In the dream, you feel that your sight is above you and you can see yourself sleeping soundly on the bed. This is also a phenomenon of the soul leaving the body. But generally speaking, the soul will basically return to the original body within a very short time, so it will not be greatly affected. Moreover, most people will not have their soul out of the body for such a long time.
There are basically only two reasons why the soul leaves the body for such a long time. One is the influence of external factors, which forces the soul to leave the body. The other is that for people with special Bazi, such as those with very light Bazi, their souls can easily leave the body.
Moreover, in such a situation, it is not suitable for the spirit to leave the body for too long. Once it exceeds seven days, the power of the soul will begin to weaken, and basically it will not be able to return to the body on its own. Once it exceeds twenty-one days, except for those with particularly strong souls, the souls of ordinary people will begin to dissipate and it will be difficult for them to come back, and they will become almost like a vegetative person.
Such a sentence made the father and son of the Yi family change color suddenly, and suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter. According to Master Xuanming, Yi Lao's current condition looked like his soul had been out of his body for nearly seven days, otherwise his breath would not be so bad.
"But that's impossible. My subordinates notified me immediately after my father fainted. It was only five days in total..."
"No, Dad, when Grandpa was in seclusion and resting, he didn't allow anyone to disturb him. Will it be the same this time?" Such a speculation immediately made the old father and son of the Yi family a little pale, and they suddenly thought of a possibility. Immediately, the Yi family members immediately contacted the subordinate who found that Mr. Yi had fainted.
Sure enough, they overlooked some details. The subordinate did not know when Mr. Yi fainted. Two days before he found out that Mr. Yi had fainted, the subordinate had met Mr. Yi. At that time, he happened to deliver Mr. Yi's favorite Go board to him and was told not to disturb him in the next two days as he wanted to study the board.
This was Mr. Yi's habit. He always liked to retreat for a day or two to study the chessboard. After two days, the subordinate felt something was wrong because the room was too quiet. It seemed that he could not even hear the sound of chess pieces falling. He panicked and rushed in. He found that Mr. Yi had fainted at some point. He then hurriedly notified the Yi family, which led to what happened next.
"That's right. If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Yi's soul had probably been out of his body for two days before he was found unconscious. So, that's about seven days. By the way, you said before that Mr. Yi always carried a peace amulet with him? It was said that it broke later?"
"That's right. When my subordinate found my old father, he saw a peace amulet lying nearby. Since it was something my old father always wore, he brought it back."
As he spoke, the Patriarch of the Yi family took out the amulet that Mr. Yi had dropped at that time and handed it to Master Xuanming.
It was an ancient amulet. Judging from the material, it was probably over ten years old. The cinnabar color was still vibrant, though the edges were a bit rotten. Upon first sight of the amulet, Master Xuanming couldn't help but frown, his face filled with confusion. "Is this... a amulet? No, this isn't a amulet. The seal on a amulet doesn't look like this."
"It's not a peace amulet? How is that possible? My old father has been wearing it for more than ten years and he has always been safe and sound. To suddenly say that it's not a peace amulet is too..."
"Don't worry, although this is not a peace talisman, you have not done any harm to Mr. Yi. No, it's quite the opposite. This is a good talisman. If it were me, I might not be able to draw such a talisman. This should be... a high-level talisman."
As he spoke, Master Xuanming carefully took out the talisman paper from the amulet bag. After all, it had been more than ten years, and the paper was easy to rot. If one corner was accidentally damaged, it would be impossible to tell what kind of talisman it was.
Master Xuanming was very knowledgeable. Not long after the talisman was fully revealed, he had clearly identified it. "It's indeed not a peace talisman. This talisman is much more powerful than ordinary peace talismans. It's a high-level soul-calming talisman. I think you may need to give me Mr. Yi's birth date and time. I now suspect that Mr. Yi has an extremely weak constitution. Generally, only people with such a birth date would carry a powerful talisman like the soul-calming talisman on their body."
As expected by Master Xuanming, Mr. Yi's horoscope was indeed extremely weak. Such a physique is extremely easy to leave the body, so generally speaking, he is weak and sickly.
After Master Xuanming said this, the father and son of the Yi family also remembered that more than ten years ago, Mr. Yi’s health was indeed not very good. He suffered from major and minor illnesses one after another. Later, he got a peace amulet from somewhere and hung it on his body, and his health gradually got better. Now it seems that it might be the soul-calming amulet at that time that suppressed Mr. Yi’s extremely mild fate and kept him safe for the next ten years.
"Now it seems that it is because the soul-calming talisman has lost its effect that Mr. Yi's soul has left his body..."
Master Xuanming speculated this way, but unexpectedly, Wen He, whose expression had become extremely strange the moment the amulet appeared, suddenly spoke up and said directly, "No, this soul-calming talisman has not lost its effect."
It must be said that Wen He said this so suddenly that almost instantly, everyone in the room subconsciously looked in her direction. Such a gaze made Wen He feel pressured, but she paused and repeated the words again with certainty, "I am very sure that this soul-calming talisman has not lost its effect."
"Girl Wen, how can you be so sure? Have you studied the Soul Calming Talisman?"
"Well, I've researched it. If it were some other soul-calming talisman, I wouldn't be so sure. But if it's this talisman, I can tell you with certainty, because this talisman... was drawn by me."
As he spoke, Wen He turned slightly to the side and looked at an inconspicuous corner of the soul-calming talisman. There, there really was a "禾" character. Although the font was crooked and a bit childish, it was indeed a "禾" character.
But how could this be possible? Wasn't Wen He only in his early twenties? And this soul-calming talisman had been drawn for over a decade? How could it possibly have been drawn by Wen He?
Wen He didn't need to guess what the others were thinking about the surprise in their eyes, but it was not appropriate to hide it in the current situation.
Moreover, at this moment, Wen He seemed to have vaguely understood why Mr. Yi called her name. It was probably not Mr. Yi who called her name, but maybe it was her grandfather who asked Mr. Yi to call her name.
"Or to be more precise, this talisman was drawn by my grandfather. Although I already knew how to draw some talismans at that time, I wasn't very good at it. A soul-calming talisman like this was extremely difficult for me to draw at that time, so it left a deep impression on me. I even wrote my name on it in an inconspicuous place out of spite. Also, because I was young and lacked the strength to draw the talisman, the lines on the soul-calming talisman are actually of varying thickness if you look closely."
If Wen He hadn't said it, they really wouldn't have noticed that the lines of the soul-calming talisman on it were indeed of different thicknesses in several places, which showed that the person who drew the talisman didn't hold the pen very steadily. It seemed to be consistent with Wen He's words one by one. What's more, in order to prove his words, Wen He pulled over a piece of white paper next to him and drew an identical soul-calming talisman very smoothly.
At this point, it was basically confirmed that the soul-calming talisman was indeed Wen He's talisman. Such confirmation made Master Xuanming feel particularly emotional when he looked at Wen He.
Some time ago, he'd heard rumors circulating among several people within the metaphysical community about a young master of formation drawing who could create advanced formations with practically bare hands, a girl in her early twenties. Such rumors had to concern Master Xuanming. After all, while his forte was exorcism, he was also among the best in the field in formation talisman cultivation, practically a master of formations.
Because of this, Master Xuanming knew better than anyone how difficult it was to draw a high-level formation with bare hands, so he couldn't help but find his drinking buddy Zhang Daxian to inquire for some information.
Zhang Daxian kept his mouth shut, not uttering a single word about the mission for a long time. Master Xuanming only knew the girl's name was Wen He. Furthermore, the delicious fruit Zhang Daxian had mentioned, seemingly imbued with the power of a concentration formation, seemed to have come from that girl. This intrigued Master Xuanming, and he even stopped attending the interview program, focusing solely on studying how to draw formations with his bare hands.
To be honest, if the Yi family had not mentioned the name 'Wen He' inadvertently when they came this time, he might not have come. Now that he knew that this girl Wen He seemed to have been able to draw talismans with her bare hands since she was a child, and that she could draw such advanced talismans, Master Xuanming was speechless.
This gap and talent are not ordinary...
Fortunately, although Master Xuanming was in a complicated mood, he did not forget the important matter. He quickly came to his senses, thought about it, and found some problems.
"Wait, I suddenly remembered. If that's the case, then it probably wasn't Mr. Yi who said to ask Wen He to come here, because by the time you guys picked up Mr. Yi, his soul had already left his body."
Master Xuanming mercilessly exposed the contradiction. The Yi father and son felt embarrassed and apologized, "Indeed, it wasn't my father who said that. I said it, but he had said something similar before. He said that if the amulet he was wearing fell off, he would definitely find that girl Wen from the Gu family. So we subconsciously thought... But now it seems that maybe Mr. Gu was the one who gave this amulet to my father as a peace amulet, and that was exactly what he said."
This way, it can be explained smoothly.
It seems that more than ten years ago, Mr. Yi and the old man of the Gu family had a very good relationship. They even told each other about their weak fortune. At that time, Wen He actually re-realized the soul-calming talisman in the ancient book, which allowed Mr. Yi to spend more than ten years in peace.
But now the question arises again, if the soul-calming talisman did not lose its effect, what was the reason that caused Yi Lao's soul to suddenly leave his body?
Wen He shook her head, indicating she wasn't entirely sure. After all, she was adept at drawing formations, but she was a complete novice at metaphysical identification. "My formation talisman, I'm certain the soul-calming talisman still works, but it's certainly been partially eroded. Right here, I can sense a hint of unpleasant yin energy. Master Xuanming, do you know what's going on?"
What Wen He means is... the remaining Yin energy?
Hearing this, Master Xuanming paused, as if he had thought of something, and turned the place Wen He pointed to in front of him. Then he quickly and neatly painted cinnabar on a small knife, and then quickly and neatly inserted it in that direction.
Suddenly, there was a very shrill sound, and a baby's cry of "Wow!" suddenly jumped out, and a ball of black gas emerged straight from the talisman, and a deformed, strange and weird baby appeared!
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